Nominations Open – Top 50 Innovation Tweeters of 2012

by Innovation Excellence

We thought it would be a fun summer activity to pull together a list of the top innovation personalities and information sharers on twitter. We know we follow a lot of great innovation people on twitter (including a lot of the great Innovation Excellence authors) and we are curious to see who you follow or who you think people should investigate to learn more about. We’ll then take your nominations and our favorites and compile them into a list to share back with you next Monday.

Braden Kelley is a popular innovation speaker, embeds innovation across the organization with innovation training, and builds B2B pull marketing strategies that drive increased revenue, visibility and inbound sales leads. He is currently advising an early-stage fashion startup making jewelry for your hair and is the author of Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire from John Wiley & Sons. He tweets from @innovate.

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I recommend Prof. Frank T. Piller, professor of management at the RWTH Aachen University and one of the world’s leading scholars for open innovation and mass customization. His blog mass-customization.de (on both MC and OI) and his frequent tweets at @masscustom are suited to keep you up on speed about everything any MC/OI enthusiast needs to know.

I nominate JR Reagan, Deloitte’s Federal Chief Innovation Officer, an innovator and frequent speaker on innovation topics. JR specializes in lightweight innovation and prototyping to assist clients with envisioning the ‘art of the possible’. JR serves as Senior Professional Faculty at Johns Hopkins University and has given guest lectures on Innovation and Solutions Development at Harvard University, Northwestern Kellogg and University of South Carolina. JR is a prolific Tweeter with a substantial following and uses the Tweets he finds to develop an internal Innovation QOD for 40,000 global team members on internal Yammer.

Hey Braden, thanks for valuing folks who live and foster change through innovation!

As I thought about your delightful challenge I thought the tag “innovation” could be used in every blog or article I publish, and saw you as part of that inspiration.

Because of your own brain compatible practices — such as rallying up innovative leaders like you did here — I vote for your talents to top such a list!

Here is a post which shows how you still impact my MBA students in a course I designed and teach – Called, LEAD INNOVATION WITH THE BRAIN IN MIND. My interview re your book spotlights why I nominate your blog with honors.

I nominate Think Jar Collective @thinkjar_ for their diverse perspective on creativity and innovation. The Collective’s columnists range from Artists to Artificial Intelligence scientists.
Think Jar Collective
“We aim to ‘jar’ status quo assumptions, spark creativity and relevant social innovations. We like to bash disparate ideas together to see what emerges…”http://www.thinkjarcollective.com

-James Gardner@bankervision(http://innovatorinside.com): Chief Strategy Officer at Spigit, former CTO and Director of Future Design at U.K.’s Department for Work and Pensions, and former Head of Innovation at Lloyds Banking Group

Nominating @MayoInnovation – in a short amount of time the Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation has moved from an insulated, multidisciplinary group to the center of innovation discussions in healthcare through twitter. @MayoInnovation through their utilization of tweetchats + storify, and effective use of links to external resources help tell the story and frame often complex problems of healthcare to ones that can be solved.

Claudia Megele (@claudiamegele)has introduced the use of social media, twitter in particular, to the heart of the social work community, creating a welcoming, interesting and universally welcoming space within which professionals/service users/anybody can debate and discuss issues which effect them. Claudia introduced the @swscmedia debates and her selfless work continues apace. She should most certainly be on this list, if not a the top of it!

I would like to nominate Claudia Megele (@claudiamegele) for her innovative use of Twitter to bring together the Social Work community and provide a platform which is exciting, stimulating and diverse where all can debate and contribute on a level with the @swscmedia deates. Her selfless and incredibly generous work should put her on the list, if not at the top of it!!

I nominate Ellen Weber @ellenfweber Most of her tweets relate to innovation and almost ever post on her awesome blog ( http://www.brainleadersandlearners.com/) is focused on innovation although she doesn’t use that label.

I nominate Ellen Weber @ellenfweber and Robyn McMaster @robynmcmaster as outstanding female innovators who both tweet and blog content that is focused on innovation for leadership/career development (incorporating the latest developments in neuroscience, psychology, business and more).